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Overall – the Supreme Court ruling was appropriate and right. Simply put, under any current definition of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, all are afforded equal rights and treatment regardless of differences.
Marriage is a religious ceremony, not a civil one. Marriage has it’s foundations built upon centuries of what was best for the church and it’s future. The view being that it order to thrive it must have people to support it and the best way was to encourage units called families under the umbrella of marriage that protected it from outside destruction. The sanctity of marriage was and still is considered holy under the eyes of God.
Fast track to today and with the separation of church and state publicly stated, although not true both have decided that the front should be divided as well. One is based on moral conviction of it’s beliefs, the other on it’s ethical treatment of people under Constitutions. Both their conduct leads to the same thing. Protection of it’s self-interest and way of doing things coupled with the outward appearance that it has superior moral authority and by consequence can dictate it’s terms without being challenged.
Where they differ of late is with gay rights. Hence with my appearance on the stage basically with my coming of age and decision on which direction my Dance of Life would take back in the early ’80’s – Enter the Dragon with AIDS.
There’s no doubt that the 2 are connected – almost as if to dissuade me of going down that path and to warn of dire consequences of a disease called HIV. AIDS is acquired with subtle help. That long arm that aids in it’s dispersal is definitely malicious in it’s intent. A lot of people have suffered needlessly and for profit at the hands of those who know better yet made sure that they stayed in the shadows conducting the orchestras of what the human race should look like. Sounds very familiar to Second World War history doesn’t it? While that tune was public, this one is unspoken but nevertheless just as real.
Enter common law. With soaring divorce rates and people choosing and attempting to avoid going down the path of bitter divorce proceedings, common law arrangements became de facto and acceptable. Churches for the most part stayed mum on the subject – sort of like blessing it by turning a blind eye, head in the sand and staying mum on the subject while being vitriolic in some instances where it served it’s purpose when the subject reared it’s ugly head in public.
States viewed it as an extension of a pre-arrangement of ‘FOREPLAY’ prior to marriage leading into it. Time was usually the benchmark to consider it as formal even though under the terms and conditions of a church sanction, it was all but said and done.
Hence the Supreme Court in my opinion has ruled appropriately. If you want marriage and all of it’s moral and legal protections, run to your nearest church and do it’s bidding. You’ll enjoy all that marriage was meant to be along with it’s oppose of divorce should that happen. Remember that it’s till death does you part. Either way, it’s means what it says, and says what it means.
Common law arrangements for better or worst, means one thing and one thing only. You are not comfortable with the religious act of being morally sanctified, you don’t care about being morally sanctified and you enjoy the independence of being able to exercise your Rights and Freedoms based on being single, not a couple and not married as a family unit under the church.
Common law is an agreement between 2 age of majority people who decide independently that their best chances of being happy by their common goal of being together in a Dance of Life is beyond the reason of a doubt. It is a civil arrangement between 2 people and takes on the same format as those dictated by the state which in it’s supposition rests on the argument that it views all marriage as purely financial in nature and for personal financial gain. It is accountable in being termed a transaction of net gain or net loss. Hence the acrimony of today’s divorces being the state of the union’s address on the matter.
I would suggest that all other states and provinces pay attention to this ruling, because in time this will be a standard upon which all relationships are viewed in the eyes of the law.
Why – the answer is simple, gay civil unions and their breakup will be the standard bearers of change. Next up – Poly marriages and poly unions. The cat’s out of the bag, better start dealing with it. Civilly of course. 🙂
Live~NRGY 
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